A community group is planning on the expansion of a square flower garden in a city park. If each side of the original garden is increased by 3 meters, the new total area of the garden will be 225 square meters. Find the length of each side of the original garden.
A. 15m
B. 3m
C. 12m
D. square root of 12m
I dont understand this question, if somebody could help me please! Thank you.
take the square root of 255 (like ms.sue said) and you get 15, which is the NEW side length. If you subtract 3 (because that's how much they added) you get the answer: 12. 12 is the old side length.
12m
Thank you Anonymouss for actually explaining
thanks so much.
Find the square root of 225. That will tell you the length of each new side.
If you have the option for 13, it's 13. The version of the question OP posted asks for the square root of 225. The other version of the question asks for the square root of 169. Y'all keep ya brains on
Ms sue is right but she said the side of the new garden not the old
12 isn't an option for me so going with 13
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